In Seven Lands. By Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. (Chatto and Windus.
12s. 6d. net.)—A third volume of Mr. Tizetelly's reminiscences. Very nearly half the book is devoted to visits to Germany in the years immediately following the Franco-German War, dealing more particularly with life in Berlin. Incidentally we are initiated into the mysteries of the famous Erbswurst or pea-sausage, "the chief element in the rations which are served out to German soldiers in the field. . . . The ingredients of these sausages consisted of pea-flour, chopped beef-fat, smoked pigs' breast, onions, herbs, end salt, all well mixed and pressed together by means of cylindrical moulds, before being enclosed in paper." The other countries about which Mr. Vizetelly writes, and has many entertaining and interesting things to say, are Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.
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